Friday Night Flights: Freeware Friday

[WarHawK]

Our 2nd or 3rd rendition of 'Freeware Fridays'.

Flight Plan: KHLN - KBZN - KCOD - KJAC

Summary
Our commemoration flight to freeware developers that keep things fun and interesting for all of us. This is always a great event for sharing new aircraft that users have found and flight tested as well as scenery and other add-on options for our flight simulators.

Time-zone BreakDown: Friday, August 7th, 2015 at:
9PM Eastern
8PM Central
7PM Mountain
6PM Pacific

::Other Useful information::

Target Airspeed: [130kias -160kias]
Average Cruising Altitude: 4,500 FT - 8,500 FT AGL (mountains in area all over flight paths, be advised.)
Preferred Aircraft: Freeware Aircraft! I will be flying something from Dino Catteneo's hangar most likely.

Steam/Boxed/P3D users welcome.

[Travis]

Going through the east side of Yellowstone, Awesome! And this flight completely relates to a topic I want to bring up that I will post on the forums shortly

[Storm]

I will fly Robert James Richardson's Cessna 310Q (12^th on page). It will easily do the 12,000ft required for this flight at 160 kts.

Novawing24 has several additional repaints for this plane here. Like this one:



After installing the plane I strongly recommend you make the following change to the aircraft.cfg file:

Change:
thrust_scalar = 1.30                            //Propeller thrust scalar
to read:
thrust_scalar = 1.0                            //Propeller thrust scalar

This ensures the airplane flies realistically, without crazy acceleration or top speed.

Flying notes: Take-off: flaps = 0, rotate at 90 knots. Gear max speed = 152 knots Flaps max speed = 152 knots (2 notches of flaps available) Approach at 110 knots at half flap. On very short final, select full flap and reduce throttle to 40% (and no less). Touchdown at 75 knots. Notes: Engine is auto-mixture. Switches have British orientation (down = on).

I shall fly the light blue "Storm Avionics" paint.

[Storm]

Please click on the pics + F11 for full-size/clarity.

[Prdude62]

Here are some pics of Warhawks freeware flight. http://imgbox.com/g/LjYyYrIp4Z

[Space Taco]

My shots in Steam: (Imgur Album)

[Viper aka Billy]

First group flight was loads of fun guys! Thanks to Austin Blair for showing me this a few months back. He is the reason why I bought FSX and my joystick.